AuthorTopic: Smile 2007 - Part 2 (Read 88739 times)

Panda · **on:** June 17, 2007, 08:15:48 am

So, here we are onto the last part of the smiley activity.
The winner entries that made it up to here are:

Junkboy's template

Lawrence's template

Snake's template (the tilted squares)

Now the task here would be to make the remaining smileys to complete the sets. Ideally, it would be neat having someone fixing the templates (the AA on snake's template, or perhaps polish Lawrence's a bit more, etc) before carrying on, but anyway leaving that aside, those participating should try to nail the style of the template they decide to work on as accurate as possible.
If there are multiple submissions for the same expression, only the ones that are more loyal to the original style and have more quality overall, will be included to the final set.
Feel free to contribute for the set you like the most, but they will be added for use only once we get all the smileys needed to qualify it as a complete set (so, uhm 42 or so smileys).
If you decide to make original smileys, (read as: expressions unexistant in the current smiley set) they will only be added if someone makes that same expression for all the other sets.

Ultimately, if anyone decides to make a full set of smileys (regardless of it being based on the winner entries or not, meaning you can make smileys with your own template or templates that were submitted in the first part of this activity) it will be considered for addition.
So if you are up to making one yourself (or with someone else, or whatever) go ahead.

Rules:

These are the expressions you will be working on:
$:-\$
Your submission must imitate the style of the chosen template as accurate as you can
Multiple submissions are always welcome
All designs must be your original work, completely

There will be no due date for this, but as mentioned, sets will only be added for use once they are complete.

So with all that down, feel free to start pixelling and all.
And have fun.

Disclaimer: By submitting smileys, you are agreeing and allowing Pixelation to use them as we might see appropiate. While we won't use the submissions for economical purposes (e.g. sell it), you shouldn't expect to be given credit whenever your smiley is used.

dragonrc · **Reply #1 on:** June 17, 2007, 08:50:41 am

Tried to redo the AA on snakes smile. I also made an empty template.

And here is my entry:

/

Remake of the blind smile

Arne · **Reply #2 on:** June 17, 2007, 10:35:32 am

Here are my contributions.

Lesson: Never save in PNG when there's a mask you don't know about which magically deletes everything under it.

Helm · **Reply #3 on:** June 17, 2007, 10:40:40 am

I don't even know how that can happen, but data loss is always

Arne · **Reply #4 on:** June 17, 2007, 10:59:26 am

I think the Programmers of the encoder/writer decided that, "Hey, isn't it a great idea if we like delete bitmap data under the mask, because it's like not showing anyways, and we can save space that way since blank data is easier to compress."

I don't think I'll be using PNG again as a general rule. Better safe than sorry. This loss of data does NOT show up on the preview when saving, like it does with jpg (artifact) or gif (color reduction).

Sorry for being OT. You can just pretend I posted 3x5 smileys there, or was it 4x4? Who knows.

Helm · **Reply #5 on:** June 17, 2007, 11:03:29 am

I use png almost exclusively and I've never ever lost any data due to how it's programmed. Perhaps it's photoshop fucking up there, not the format?

Anyway, yes yes, OT.

Wayuki · **Reply #6 on:** June 17, 2007, 03:07:56 pm

And that's why you should always save your files in the native format of your program, and then export as GIF or PNG afterwards.

Faceless · **Reply #7 on:** June 17, 2007, 03:09:59 pm

Here's the ones I made in the other thread.

Making more now.

dragonrc · **Reply #8 on:** June 17, 2007, 05:14:13 pm

The angry one

Feron · **Reply #9 on:** June 17, 2007, 07:02:01 pm

Quote from: dragonrc on June 17, 2007, 08:50:41 am

Tried to redo the AA on snakes smile. I also made an empty template.

they need to have a transparent background.

Cow · **Reply #10 on:** June 17, 2007, 07:06:53 pm

I thought the bad AA on Snake's entry was part of their charm. Though I'm certain I'm a minority in thinking that. $:-\$

Faceless · **Reply #11 on:** June 17, 2007, 07:32:04 pm

Quote from: dragonrc on June 17, 2007, 05:14:13 pm

The angry one

Snake already made the angry one...

dragonrc · **Reply #12 on:** June 17, 2007, 08:27:42 pm

Quote from: Feron on June 17, 2007, 07:02:01 pm

they need to have a transparent background.

done

Quote from: Faceless on June 17, 2007, 07:32:04 pm

Snake already made the angry one...

oops, forget about mine then.

miascugh · **Reply #13 on:** June 17, 2007, 08:52:53 pm

Quote

I thought the bad AA on Snake's entry was part of their charm. Though I'm certain I'm a minority in thinking that.

My thoughts exactly.

Faceless · **Reply #14 on:** June 17, 2007, 09:23:02 pm

I am torn.
Regardless, I don't think other people should be editing the AA on Snake's set.
There's a subtle difference between creating new expressions and altering the existing ones, even if it is to do something so small as changing the AA.

Edit:
Made some more:

Edit 2:
Made more again:

The Yus one is waiting for Helm to play around with hues on.
I particularly like how the ? one turned out. Somehow I think the simplicity, and difference of it just works.

Muffin · **Reply #15 on:** June 17, 2007, 10:18:11 pm

Those are pretty awesome Faceless. But some things in your 2nd edit look funny to me. Like on the ? one, it's lacking inner AA on the mouth (I don't know if you call it that) and I highly dislike how his right eye gets cut off. For me it doesn't "just work". Also, on your Yus, it looks really off in the way everything is tilted. My last say is how the "wink" is. It looks more like he's grimacing or in pain not winking. Overall, the 1st set is better.

Owel. I had 5 minutes, so I attemted Larwick's. Would like to hear if the style is right.

Edit 1: Moustaches/Mustaches

Edit 2: Extremely Bad AA!

Just for fun:

alkaline · **Reply #16 on:** June 18, 2007, 01:46:23 am

mine are on the bottom.

I liked the mustache thingy, so i tried it out

more to come later perhaps!

@faceless - those are great, the emotions conveyed are very well done and detailed

@muffin - i disagree, the wink is fine. the yus isn't really off either, i think it's more squinty than that, though.

Muffin · **Reply #17 on:** June 18, 2007, 02:02:28 am

Those are pretty sweet Alkaline! But your mustaches are much better than mine...

But about the yus smiley, I'm new to pixeling and would like to understand this.

The whole square tilts up to the right, yet it''s right eye goes down. And by looking at the Pixelation smile it looks off

Faceless · **Reply #18 on:** June 18, 2007, 02:15:34 am

I guess you just don't understand the ? one.
The whole idea is that it looks unfinished and is on a different angle to the others.
I think that goes hand in hand with ? to be honest, but I'll do a more detailed one later.
On the Yus one, I was aware of the face being on the wrong angle, but I thought it fit the character.
I'll redo it using the old one as a reference.

Edit:

Done. It's a bit more detailed than the others, but I guess it'll do.

Muffin · **Reply #19 on:** June 18, 2007, 02:25:32 am

Thank you Faceless for the explanation. I am in agreement with you, of how I just didn't get the ? emote. It makes a lot more snse to me now. I also now understand the yus and it really doesn't bother me anymore. Thanks for the clarification.

Faceless · **Reply #20 on:** June 18, 2007, 06:02:10 pm

Isn't anyone else going to make any?
Should I just go ahead and make them all?

Muffin · **Reply #21 on:** June 18, 2007, 07:26:22 pm

Now I love your set Faceless, I think it's much better. I am working on some more of Lawrence's, but nobody has told me whether or not the style's right

Xion · **Reply #22 on:** June 18, 2007, 07:54:59 pm

You mean Lawrence?

Muffin · **Reply #23 on:** June 18, 2007, 07:58:25 pm

Yus,

I should really go on to Phonics...

Lawrence · **Reply #24 on:** June 18, 2007, 08:03:43 pm

Don't worry Mustard, people often make that mistake.

alkaline, those are bloody excellent .Muffle's are pretty good too, I'm not sure about the quality of the aa though. You've done a good job on those, faceless, nice work.

Faceless · **Reply #25 on:** June 18, 2007, 08:11:02 pm

Yeh, I have to agree that Alkaline's are supurb.
Fit in perfectly, and very consistant.

Muffin · **Reply #26 on:** June 18, 2007, 08:55:01 pm

I'm embarrased

...owel.

I tried once again, to match alkaline's awesome set, but I think I failed...unlike alkaline's, unconsistent, and don't hold the style...

Lawrence · **Reply #27 on:** June 18, 2007, 09:05:14 pm

Mmm, I quite like the idea behind that 'blank face' smiley. We should have one for every set that gets finished.

Faceless · **Reply #28 on:** June 18, 2007, 09:29:03 pm

I don't get it muff. Why did you remake some of the ones that Alkaline already made?
I think some of yours look quite nice, but bare in mind the faces don't have to look like the ones we have atm.
You can be creative with the same expressiosn. For example, design your own glasses, and etc.

Xion · **Reply #29 on:** June 18, 2007, 10:00:43 pm

Quote

I don't get it muff. Why did you remake some of the ones that Alkaline already made?

More to choose from.

Muffin · **Reply #30 on:** June 18, 2007, 10:29:47 pm

Quote from: Faceless

I don't get it muff. Why did you remake some of the ones that Alkaline already made?

Umm... I only did the tongue one as another to choose from, even though his was better...And his second emote is pretty much completely different from mine...

Quote from: faceless

I think some of yours look quite nice, but bare in mind the faces don't have to look like the ones we have atm.

I believe you are talking about my last 3 in the new edit. Although I did reference, mine were originally different,. That is, until my brother said if I made them look more like the current ones, that it would be much better.

Quote from: faceless

You can be creative with the same expressiosn. For example, design your own glasses, and etc.

I was more creative at the beginning but as I said before, my brother and I decided it would be a lot better if I made them more like the originals:

originals:

Faceless · **Reply #31 on:** June 18, 2007, 11:25:09 pm

Quote from: Xion on June 18, 2007, 10:00:43 pm

I really like the first two on the top row.
I think you did a better job with the missing tooth one than the original. I always hated that emoticon.

alkaline · **Reply #32 on:** June 19, 2007, 05:50:41 am

I realized we had no hearts here

tried out an animated heart, and included a red and yellow version

hehe and I tried YUS and realized I couldn't get too detailed because of the smiley set halfway through :0

and every forum needs a beer mug yoes.

Helm · **Reply #33 on:** June 19, 2007, 11:00:26 am

hm yus one almost doesn't read. Just almost though.

tricky at this size.

Froli · **Reply #34 on:** June 19, 2007, 12:23:26 pm

Added some. Feel free to edit it..I don't know if the teeth thing is fitting.

Faceless · **Reply #35 on:** June 19, 2007, 12:38:43 pm

I don't like the teeth, but otherwise they look good.

Conzeit · **Reply #36 on:** June 19, 2007, 08:11:28 pm

Hey Helmetudo, think you can post a good YUS ref pic for us to take the expression?

I really think we should give the YUS emoticon a beak, I think the way we have it now it just looks disgruntled, it isnt truly YUS :p

hey Faceless and Froli, I think you guys did some good stuff on the Snake emotes. truthfully though, I think you are using a bit too much detail and selout, it kinda drifts away from the essence of the template.....I've touched up every smile trying to improve it while keeping the essence...hope u guys like it c.c

Faceless, I like your idea behind the ?

tried to put it in my idea :p

Muffin · **Reply #37 on:** June 19, 2007, 08:57:11 pm

Just a question, but is anyone going to do Junkboy's?

Faceless · **Reply #38 on:** June 19, 2007, 09:00:28 pm

Not me, but I'm sure somebody will.
It got the most votes afterall.

Conzeit · **Reply #39 on:** June 19, 2007, 09:16:59 pm

it'd be hillarious if they didnt

Feron · **Reply #40 on:** June 19, 2007, 09:20:33 pm

the original just looks so great, i'm begginning to doubt whether the other expressions would live up to its awesomeness. plus im sure many are scared there just gonna fuck it up.

ptoing · **Reply #41 on:** June 20, 2007, 12:24:16 am

Xion · **Reply #42 on:** June 20, 2007, 01:46:46 am

Cool, ptoing. I don't really like any of the ones with the larger black:yellow ratio, though. The ones at 8, 5, and 6, on the numpad. The other ones are pretty awesome, though.

Faceless · **Reply #43 on:** June 20, 2007, 05:36:56 am

I thought 6 was the best one.

I agree about the other two.

Conceit, I like some of what you did, but not as a whole.
I think we both based ours around different aspects of the set, each going in different directions, and who's to say which is better.
Yours are definitely less in keeping with the originals though. I guess I'll have to counter you with some new versions of yours.

Conzeit · **Reply #44 on:** June 20, 2007, 06:31:32 am

haha, you're right I got carried away

I just liked the rosy cheeks of the : ) emote so much I exagerated that into a completly new element of using the gradients and blushes to fill up the emote. and then I capitalized on your idea of faking angles by moving the face features to a side and it all went to crazyland

hope they still get used tho

I'm thinking of just doing a set of my own, hell....if I do that it'll surely get used anyways :p......AND I wont be stepping on your toes C_c

kite · **Reply #45 on:** June 20, 2007, 05:03:42 pm

yay for asymmetry!

Rawsushi · **Reply #46 on:** June 21, 2007, 11:31:25 am

I'm sorry, but it NEEDED to be animated.

ptoing · **Reply #47 on:** June 21, 2007, 12:05:04 pm

That totally wins

Helm · **Reply #48 on:** June 21, 2007, 12:21:09 pm

Panda · **Reply #49 on:** June 21, 2007, 12:38:38 pm

Haha awesome.

Oh also, Conceit, if you decide to make your own set, make sure it's not like megaflashy and the expressions are readable at a first glance.

snake · **Reply #50 on:** June 21, 2007, 01:27:36 pm

PARTY!!!

I'll get back to making a test set a little later. Loving the ideas so far.

Faktablad · **Reply #51 on:** June 21, 2007, 02:50:44 pm

Just wondering...would it be possible to make all of the smilies animated in this way? That would be amazing.

ptoing · **Reply #52 on:** June 21, 2007, 03:05:18 pm

haha, would be a bit annoying. I think it works with the :D one, what with being all happy and stuff, gives it an extra jolly touch.

On the :| one though I don't think it really works. it's a tad odd.

Feron · **Reply #53 on:** June 21, 2007, 03:08:18 pm

Quote from: ptoing on June 21, 2007, 03:05:18 pm

On the :| one though I don't think it really works. it's a tad odd.

lol like he's dancing but not enjoying it.

ptoing · **Reply #54 on:** June 21, 2007, 03:13:10 pm

Mirz · **Reply #55 on:** June 21, 2007, 03:46:49 pm

Being a smiley freak myself, I just wanted to peek in to say these are all awesome! LOL!

Helm · **Reply #56 on:** June 21, 2007, 03:58:05 pm

Quote from: ptoing on June 21, 2007, 03:13:10 pm

haha retardo wants to dance too! lovable!

dragonrc · **Reply #57 on:** June 21, 2007, 06:58:17 pm

I love the idea of animated smiles!

1st · **Reply #58 on:** June 21, 2007, 09:41:01 pm

snake smilies ftw!

= D isn't transparent =/ but who cares!

Feron · **Reply #59 on:** June 21, 2007, 09:52:24 pm

Quote from: dragonrc on June 21, 2007, 06:58:17 pm

I love the idea of animated smiles!

you got the timing perfect on that one!

Xion · **Reply #60 on:** June 21, 2007, 10:12:20 pm

Quote from: 1st on June 21, 2007, 09:41:01 pm

snake smilies ftw! = D isn't transparent =/ but who cares!

I DEMAND THIS BE INCLUDED IN THE FINAL SET.

'dit:
Mo'

dragonrc · **Reply #61 on:** June 22, 2007, 07:21:15 pm

1st · **Reply #62 on:** June 23, 2007, 12:13:36 pm

new !

=)

( isn't transparent )

Faktablad · **Reply #63 on:** June 24, 2007, 08:21:06 pm

Yar, so I made a set based on my own smileys because.......I have no life. haha

Feron · **Reply #64 on:** June 24, 2007, 09:50:42 pm

Fak those are awesome, the only one that doesn't read well is :

, because there the blues in his face can't make out the tears.

Faceless · **Reply #65 on:** June 24, 2007, 11:14:47 pm

I don't think any of them read well...
They read much better at 2x.

.TakaM · **Reply #66 on:** June 25, 2007, 04:22:57 am

and I think its best to leave thumbs up and thumbs down not attached to a face so they're more versatile

-

etc

Faktablad · **Reply #67 on:** June 25, 2007, 04:34:16 am

Feron: Thanks. Actually there are no tears in that particular smiley...I decided they would be unnoticeable.

Faceless: They read pretty darn well for what I was trying to do: fit readable expressions onto a lifelike face within a 16x16 space. Unfortunately I can't do much better without increasing the size, which I don't want to do, because I don't like the way large smileys break up text.

.TakaM: Gaah, jeez, you're right. I'll try and work on that.

Panda · **Reply #68 on:** June 25, 2007, 08:36:41 am

I think the purple ones read the best, and somehow fit the boards more.
The blue and green ones are hard to focus on (high sat. and all), and making the whole seeing-the-expression-at-a-first-glance rather tedious.

Oh also, anyone working on smiley sets, if you could put every smiley in individual images it'd make the adding thing way easier for us.

tomas · **Reply #69 on:** June 25, 2007, 11:31:14 am

That's a real pretty set of smileys you got there, Faktablad. But I have to agree with Faceless that they're very hard to read. Especially at 1x, which is how they would be viewed on a board. Here's a quick suggestion how the readability could be improved a bit. I basically just changed the face detail color to pure black and made the details a bit bigger (without increasing the size of the squares).

(mine on the the bottom)

Jad · **Reply #70 on:** June 25, 2007, 12:55:17 pm

Now I really want snake's tilted square-smileys to be the new standard. Only because of the dancing smilies. Of course, I demand that every single dancing one is implemented in the final version. Too good to resist. Animated smileys should NEVER be the standard, but included as a variety, it adds life to a lot of small expressions and the dancing smilies are absolutely adorable. You have no idea of how much 'retarded smiley wants to dance' would be used by me <3 <3 <3

pixel32 · **Reply #71 on:** June 29, 2007, 09:46:25 am

rabidbaboy · **Reply #72 on:** June 30, 2007, 09:32:57 am

PypeBros · **Reply #73 on:** July 03, 2007, 02:56:59 pm

my try on junkboy' template.

not that easy to give them readable feelings without eyesdot or teeth ...

snake · **Reply #74 on:** July 03, 2007, 11:21:34 pm

Did some based on the ones we have now, this is just the top row, I'll look into the others later:

~~(BTW Panda, the rolleyes one is shown twise in your post.)~~ - Fixed, thanks - Panda

Seems people took a liking to the poor AA. I was just playing around, but I guess if you want to keep it that way, sure. I made these to fit that "style", but I can rework them with some better AA if people feel this is what they want. Some are still a bit WIP, but I wanted to show the general style I intended to use first. Some will of course be animated.

I guess the emotes are in a somewhat tricky angle to AA, and the palette (taken from the originals) isn't the best suited for it, but I gave it a shot:

The middle one is the closest I've got so far, but it might require some extra tinkering.

Shadoron · **Reply #75 on:** July 25, 2007, 05:54:38 am

I wiilll contribute! *after I sleep* what is AA??? what is WIP??? the N00B inside me is killing me from the inside!:yell:

dragonrc · **Reply #76 on:** July 25, 2007, 08:26:18 am

WIP: Work In Progress. (Not finished yet)
AA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing

PypeBros · **Reply #77 on:** August 01, 2007, 09:41:44 am

so where is the compo going on ? waiting for more submissions ? voting ?

Zoggles · **Reply #78 on:** August 27, 2007, 07:20:33 am

Got to say I love Junkboy's template made me have a quick go at a couple of animated ones.. maybe I'll get a chance to do a few others. Just thought I'd throw them into the mix in case they spark off any other ideas or whatnot. I think the crying works better than the head nod of approval but that's just my opinion.

-Z-

Jad · **Reply #79 on:** August 29, 2007, 07:11:14 pm

Hump hump hump hump hump

... firefox animates these way too fast D;

Helm · **Reply #80 on:** August 29, 2007, 07:57:41 pm

the crying one is really really not enjoying the sex

Larwick · **Reply #81 on:** August 29, 2007, 09:48:55 pm

Oh my gosh i lolled.

Headbanging cubemote would work there.

griffy6 · **Reply #82 on:** October 19, 2007, 12:03:46 am

X'D

I was on the floor laughing for at least five minutes. Literally.

Anyway, I have been counting on the mushroom smileys to win ever since the beginning. If we could have more of those animated, it would be a surefire win.

drZool · **Reply #83 on:** December 07, 2007, 04:53:14 pm

So I needed a couple of smileys, and did a remake of these three:

$:-\$

Yes, there are some issues with non conformity... but what the heck.

lostspringtidus · **Reply #84 on:** February 14, 2008, 05:14:17 pm

Not a useful contribution, but:

This seemed like a good idea but when finished realised the "ball" was too small, 3x3 instead of 2x2 would have made a lot of difference.
[Edit] Also color red doesn't help.

mattpk · **Reply #85 on:** February 14, 2008, 10:01:12 pm

When the ball rolls on the mouth it looks like he's licking his lips, then... it's tongue goes into it's eye socket???

miascugh · **Reply #86 on:** February 23, 2008, 11:05:30 pm

Ok guys, this has been around for a while now, let's try and get this done. Snake's set seems to be the most finished one here and for now I guess one complete set will suffice. Only 14 more emotes to go in snake's version:

The banner's getting a bit embarrassing

Terley · **Reply #87 on:** February 23, 2008, 11:50:35 pm

I agree, had a go at carrying it on by doing a few, feel free to adjust.

miascugh · **Reply #88 on:** February 24, 2008, 03:09:29 pm

That's great, that makes only 8 left.

The last two are a bit too similar maybe. The left one should be less retarded and more naive/childlike imo.

tocky · **Reply #89 on:** February 25, 2008, 12:40:04 pm

Terley · **Reply #90 on:** February 25, 2008, 10:36:48 pm

awesome, come on guys!

4 LEFT!

cave · **Reply #91 on:** February 25, 2008, 10:52:27 pm

I tried to do the thumbs up and down but... It didn't turn out so well :S

edit: well f me, i did one duplicate >_>;;

miascugh · **Reply #92 on:** February 26, 2008, 01:44:45 pm

Nice, we're getting there. A few crits for the new ones:

tocky:
I think you used an old base, because you're missing the new aa around the borders and the first one could do with some more internal smoothing as well.
Feel free to alter the colors of the second one a little more, to give more of a green tinge.
Here I think the expression would benefit greatly from single-pixel pupils, and white in the eyes to go along with the others stylewise
For the last one I have no real crits

cave:
I'm not sure if a whistling smiley even needs those pronounced inflated cheeks, most of the other smileys in this set seem to do without too elaborate shading.
Yeah, well, I can't really pick a favorite of the other.

Thanks for getting this done so fast now guys. I'll have a go at the thumbs up ones myself, if I manage to get my last homework assignment for now done today.

tocky · **Reply #93 on:** February 26, 2008, 02:02:09 pm

Ah, I see what happened. I swear I used the same squares as from snake's last post, so I think Photoshop musta stole aways some of my colours when I saved it. I'll see if I can fix it back.

edit:

miascugh · **Reply #94 on:** February 28, 2008, 06:41:26 am

Ok, here's my suggestion, a very straight forward realization of the thumbs up and down icons

The only one missing now would be

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